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¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.

²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

¹⁸Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.

¹⁵Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.

¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁷Teach your son, and he will refresh you, and he will give delight to your soul.

¹A wise son is the doctrine of his father. But he who ridicules does not listen when he is reproved.

³⁰The bruise of a wound, as well as scourges, shall wipe away evils in the more secret places of the inner self.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. ²Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: ³so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth. ⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

³So then, meditate upon him who endured such adversity from sinners against himself, so that you may not become weary, failing in your souls. ⁴For you have not yet resisted unto blood, while striving against sin. ⁵And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: “My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.” ⁶For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges. ⁷Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct? ⁸But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.

¹⁸If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience: ¹⁹they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. ²⁰And they shall say to them: ‘This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.’ ²¹Then the people of the city shall stone him to death. And he shall die, so that you may take away the evil from your midst. And so may all of Israel, upon hearing it, be very afraid.

¹And, brothers, if a man has been overtaken by any offense, you who are spiritual should instruct someone like this with a spirit of leniency, considering that you yourselves might also be tempted.

¹¹Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.